The Dumbest and Best Productivity Trick
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The Dumbest and Best Productivity Trick
I thought I was being productive. Prompt, wait, check Twitter. Prompt, wait, answer a Slack message. Prompt, wait, reorganize my desktop.
What I didn't realize was that each switch was leaving traces. Attention residue, psychologists call it - when part of your mind stays stuck on the previous task even after you've mov... See more
S 🪷x.comIn rarefied pursuits like professional writing, the importance of doing fewer minor things so you can do the main things better makes a lot of sense. We like to imagine our novelists cloistered in sheds, toiling in undisrupted concentration, oblivious to the distractions of the world. But we also assume that this lifestyle doesn’t generalize to the
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